Coat hanger



Nov. 22, 1949 M. GENTILE ET AL 2,488,860

COAT HANGER Filed March 18, 1946 INVENTORS MA HINU GEN TILE PAS LE JRUMANELLU ATT'URN Y Patented Nov. 22 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICERomanello, San Jose, Calif.

Application March 18, 1946, Serial N0. 655,044

1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in coat hangers and hasparticular reference to a moth ball containing coat hanger.

The principal object of the invention is the production of a hanger onwhich can be suspended coats, dresses, pants and other garments, and toembed in the arms of the hanger moth ball containing casings orcartridges from which the vapors or fumes of the moth balls emit to thusprotect the garments from the injurious effects of moths, larvae, andother insects.

An additional object of the invention is the production of a hanger ofthe character described that is simple in construction, economical tomanufacture, and highly serviceable and efficient in use.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent during the course of thefollowing description.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification and inwhich like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout thesame,

Fig. 1 is a view in front elevation of a coat: hanger disclosing toadvantage the moth ball holding containers positioned in the arms of thehanger, I

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the hanger,

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view of one of the moth ball containersdisclosed as positioned within an opening or bore formed in an arm ofthe hanger, and

Fig. 4 is an enlarged front view of the container removed from the boreof the arm of the hanger.

In the accompanying drawing wherein for the purpose of illustration isshown the preferred embodiment of our invention, the numeral 5designates, as a whole, a coat hanger equipped with a conventional hook6 by which the hanger is suspended, while the numeral 1 indicates thecross bar thereof. The arms of the hanger that receive the containers ofour invention, are indicated by the numerals 8 and 9.

It will be noted that an opening or bore I is formed in each armadjacent the lower extremity thereof. It is in this bore that a mothball holding container is frictionally held.

Each container embodies in its construction a male and a female sleeve,l2 and II, respectively, each sleeve being provided with an internalshoulder or flange l3, against which a circular piece of wire mesh M,abuts. In practice the sections of mesh or screen can be spot welded,soldered or otherwise secured prior to the assembly of the sleeves ofthe container, and the insertion of the latter into the bores Hi. Itwill be noted that a single moth ball I is positioned in the containerbetween the opposing screens and can be either inserted as a solid orwhole ball or can be broken into fragmentary form. By virtue of thisarrangement of what may be termed a moth ball holding cartridge, it willbe obvious that the fumes from the moth ball, passing through thescreens,

will readily permeate the atmosphere and will be most effective indriving the moths from the garments that are suspended from the hanger.As disclosed to advantage in Fig. 3, it will be observed that the innerend portion of the sleeve H is recessed and the outer cylindricalsurface of the sleeve 12 reduced and is capable of extending in the saidrecess, whereby the length of the device is adjustable and adapted tofit different thickness of garment hangers and be flush with the outerside surfaces of the hanger.

The coat hanger can be sold to the trade with the cartridges alreadypositioned in the bores formed in the arms H3 or optionally thecartridges can be purchased as separate units and by the simpleexpediency of boring openings in the arms of standard hangers, thecartridges or containers can be easily and quickly inserted for use bythe owner of the hanger.

It is to be understood that the form of our invention herewith shown anddescribed is to be taken as a preferred example of the same and thatvarious changes relative to the material, size, shape and arrangement ofparts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of theinvention or the scope of the subjoined claim.

Having thus described our invention, we claim:

In combination with a garment hanger having a circular openingtransversely extending therethrough, of a device for retaining mothballs comprising a cylindrical casing slidably mounted in said openingof the garment hanger and frictionally retained therein, the said casingbeing formed of two oppositely disposed cylindrical sleeves, having thesame inner and outer diameters, an inwardly extending flange portionformed on the outer extremity of each of said sleeves, a circular pieceof wire mesh mounted in each sleeve and positioned against the innersurface of each of said flange portions for retaining the moth ball inthe casing and enabling the fumes different thicknesses of garmenthangers and be flush with the outer surfaces thereof. MARINO GENTILE.PASQUALE J. ROMANELLO.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,168,741 Potter Jan. 18, 19162,354,099 Bess July 18, 1944 2,398,873 Ward Apr. 23, 1946

